- Joyce Carol Oates award shortlist (I can’t imagine having an award named after you while you’re still alive…. it’s like they’re rushing you out the door);
- Quill suggests some books to have on hand for Women’s Day (including Nancy Lee’s first book of poetry, which I have under review there coming up);
- New rules: all meetings should now start with a poem;
- Take a little tour of epidemics in literature;
- China doesn’t just lead in terms of authoritarian rule, pollution, and viral load, it also leads the way in scholastics by deprioritizing the publish-or-perish structure;
- CBC is getting you ready for National Poetry Month with some upcoming title recommendations, including some of my friends, my ex-students, and my ex-students who are now friends;
- NYT on the new doc about antiquarian booksellers… I can only imagine how interesting this is going b-zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…;
- Books about heroic animals (like that one about the bear that ate Donald Trump and Jeff Bezos… what? Not a book? I must have dreamed it.)
